Oh I see what you mean. I don't think it can stand from the way it leans on the man.

I have two pedigreed dogs, a golden retriever and a standard poodle. The golden is my service dog. I love them so much and I am frequently grateful for the responsible breeders who produced them. This video breaks my heart.

They just keep screwing up the Alsatian wolf dog more and more. First the hyena-like hindquarters, then the out-sized body, and now the droopy jowls and sagging flew. Nowadays, German shepherds are looking more and more like the St. Bernard, Newfoundland, and German boar hound (great Dane), themselves freakish caricatures of their formerly functional selves. Pure-breeding eventually ruins all animals it touches via inbreeding and the selection for maladaptive extremes. I wouldn't encourage the pure-breeding of goldfish, let alone Man's Best Friend.

I don´t know whether any of you saw in a comment to this video from Egypt a photo of a sonn 10-and-a-half year old GSD which has been tied up on tiny piece of lawn for several years? A few of us neighbours take turns taking the dogs out for walks. He had trouble keeping his balance on even slightly uneven ground at first. Eight weeks of moderate exercise and he has gained nearly six pounds of muscle, at the same time he seems to have lost three years of ageing. To see him stride up a forest slope, like there was no effort involved, or jump a fallen large tree trunk - it makes my own heart fly a little, too. How comes this happened? He´s from old-fashioned working lines with a normal anatomy and a mind born to be active in cooperation with humans. The way that old dog moves now is what those poor creatures never will manage, I think - amd that makes me sad, yes. For them. But downright angry with the breeder!.

This is NOT fact. It is an allegation supported by no evidence. There are people who will believe anything you say about what is happening in China; sensationalism, much of it fantasy, about 'the Orient' has been going on since the Opium Wars, if not longer.

It's amusing in a sad sort of way that the previous article describes how a traditional Chinese breed has had its health eroded by Western breeders selecting for a deformity with consequences for health. Insinuating, with no evidence, that Chinese breeders are exporting grossly exaggerated GSD's to Egypt is not constructive.

Yah, the Chinese are breeding them like this there. The same way they're deliberately screwing the Tibetan Mastiff breed there. I have links somewhere to a couple kennels in China who breed these dogs. (Though if you know what you're looking at, their promo photos have all been photoshopped to enhance the look.)

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I grew up with pedigree dogs - English Setters, Great Danes, Labradors and, most recently, Flatcoated Retrievers. Today, I share my home with an assortment of dogs, purebred and mutts. In 2008, I directed Pedigree Dogs Exposed, a BBC documentary which uncovered the extent of health and welfare problems in pedigree dogs. The film has now been shown in more than 20 countries. Campaigning for improved purebred dog health is now a great passion - one fuelled by the fear that those who currently view themselves as the guardians of pedigree dogs are, often unwittingly, the agents of their demise.
My mission, then, is to continue to highlight where things have gone wrong and to encourage breeders and Kennel Clubs to embrace reform - particularly when it comes to harmful phenotypes and inbreeding.